An AHRC-funded doctoral studentship (fees and annual stipend £12,500-
13,000) is available on the following project based in the Department of
Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, University of Bristol, starting in
Ocotober 2007. The student will be supervised by Professor Sarah Street.
The AHRC has awarded a 3-year Research Grant to a project headed by
Professor Sarah Street, University of Bristol, entitled The Negotiation of
Innovation: Colour Films in Britain 1900-55. The project is a comparative
analysis of colour film processes introduced to British commercial fiction
and non-fiction filmmaking during the first half of the twentieth century.
It aims to provide an economic, cultural and aesthetic history of colour
film, based on archival sources, the film trade press, related
literature/periodicals and textual analysis. The project team (Sarah
Street, Co-Investigator Simon Brown of Kingston University, a post-
doctoral researcher and the PhD student) will investigate how emergent
technologies had to make a case for their superiority in a market that was
dominated by cheaper, black and white films that were also privileged in
aesthetic terms.
For further information, contact: [log in to unmask], phone: 0117
331 5090
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Salvatore Scifo
Communications,
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
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